William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Franconia
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Ruins of Sawyer School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Dotson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Old School In Wolverton
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Le Sueur Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion School In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Red Wing Iron Works
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Almelund Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The End of the Line in Currie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lost Highway 61
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Milford Monument
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome to Hanska
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Enter Marlon Brando
Meyer School In St Augusta
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Cobden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Ottawa
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Bend in the River Regional Park
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Little Marais Inn
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hanover Bridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

